Fifth Sunday after Easter Throughout paschaltide we have turned our attention to the apparitions of Our Blessed Lord following His Resurrection. On this last Sunday before the Ascension, I propose that we consider  what is probably the best known of all the apparitions, namely…

Finding of the Holy Cross Today’s feast takes us back exactly one month, to Good Friday. It also takes us back to the early 4th century when St Helena discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem. The day has come to have a double focal…

May 2026 (30 April-2 May) May is the month of Mary, and so our triduum will focus on her importance in our lives. We will do so by focusing on the teachings St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, who taught so emphatically that Mary…

Third Sunday after Easter A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. So also…

Good Shepherd In today’s Gospel, Our Blessed Lord presents Himself to us as the Good Shepherd, the One who lays down His life for His sheep, the One who holds us in the palm of His hand, from which no one can snatch us…

Quasimodo If you have been to daily Mass during the octave of Easter, or even if you have read the texts of these Masses, you cannot fail to have noticed that, in addition to the events of the risen life of Our Lord and…

Easter Sunday Throughout the past week, we have made an effort to explore the meaning of Our Blessed Lord’s passion and death, as well as what consequences it entails for the lives of those who believe in Him. When we arrive at the great…

Paschal Vigil Among all the Biblical lessons Holy Mother Church gives us in this solemn paschal vigil, there is a common thread. God intervenes when all seems lost. From the first page of Genesis in which God unexpectedly – so to speak – draws…

Good Friday As the Passion of Our Blessed Lord progresses and the almost too-hard-to-listen-to physical sufferings are heaped upon Him in ever seemingly unbearable doses, at the same time, we see a growing isolation and abandonment of the Saviour. When Holy Week opens on…